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Comment #19175296
Kind of rich for a company which pays hardly anything (if anything T all) in taxes to ask for tax revenue.
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Comment #19030994
This isn't just startup culture though, it's capitalism in general. Startup culture is really just the embodiment of everything wrong with capitalism.
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Comment #19030934
No the rich and powerful have choices of how to act, while the poor have very little. Additionally, the rich and powerful are the ones who have structured the system in such a way …
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Comment #18992280
All employers cave to labor action.
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Comment #18513111
Findom. You've invented findom.
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Comment #18491197
Only very recently and many haven't even raised all the way. But I agree that it's not going to solve the problem, only a maximum income can solve that.
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Comment #18491163
>My guess is that while your anecdote may infuriate you, the effect of investors who don’t rent out their homes is negligible on housing prices. No that's actually a large part of …
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Comment #18491149
Or until landlords are abolished like they should be.
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Comment #18491142
>And that doesn't count the lifetime pension, health, early retirement some of them get. That website explicitly includes benefits, what are you talking about?
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Comment #18419622
What do you mean traditional car companies not taking EVERYTHING IS seriously? Volzwagen is switching all their cars to electric.
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Comment #18331643
I doubt they're trying to prop up a single tech journalist. If I had to speculate on intelligence agency motivations I'd speculate that they're trying to attack SuperMicro.
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Comment #18266077
It's also possible Bloomberg's sources are lying to them. It's not unwarranted for intelligence agencies to leak things to the press deliberately to create a story.
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Comment #18256890
Much of the maintenance of Britian's infrastructure is still done by the government. Rails, for example, are government maintained but we just don't get the profits anymore.
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Comment #18217190
So how many chances are we going to give billionaires? Three? Four? One hundred? Most people get one mistake.
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Comment #18217159
Isn't that more telling about the nature of "value" than the advice though?
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Comment #18190763
You don't see discussion on that because you're on a tech industry website, not a janitorial forum. And the percentage of women in janitorial work is nearly twice that as the perce…
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Comment #18190718
How the hell are you targeting ads with "bicep mass"?
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Comment #18190657
Biases are rarely knowingly done, that's why they're biases. The proof is in the pudding though. The model Amazon came up with was biased against women. That suggests that female c…
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Comment #18190632
Yes. Software engineers taking ethics seriously and not letting technical enthusiasm blind them is news, not normality.
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Comment #18190627
The media has always been about narratives.
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Comment #18137245
While this is a good thing, it's not nearly sufficient to stop climate catastrophe.
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Comment #18021583
Citation needed. Elon trashed his name well enough on his own.
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Comment #18015909
Elon Musk has evaporated the public's trust in him.
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Comment #17996794
That's a poorly phrased warrant canary. Aren't warrant canaries intended to be for FISA-type warrants?
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Comment #17975207
Mom & Pop, by definition, refers to the ownership of the medium. Not how many people work on it.